Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet.
Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
The ideas flow like milk and honey in my land, my mind.
The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.
Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.
Just curious,she mouthed. "What? I didn't catch that." Jjuussttccuurriioouuss.She drew it out this time, hoping he'd be able to read her lips. "If you spoke out loud," he drawled, "I might understand what you're saying." Caroline stamped her foot in ...
, who literally wrote , is also part of the Overview Institute. And he thinks of space travel largely as does—an evolutionary step. "If fish could think at our level of intelligence," White said, "back before humanity existed, and some fish were st...
I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astoni...
I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now. I fell in love with him. But I don’t just st...
All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never seek novelty or the eccentric; I do not go from land to land to contrast civilizations. I seek only, wherever I go, for symbols of greatne...
The decline of sustained close reading of Eliot is also related, ironically, to the emergence of historical scholarship regarding sources and allusions. The major figure here is Grover Smith, who in the midfifties published an encyclopedic study of E...
Growth seems to evolve from a narrow-minded, constricted worldview (selfish) to an ever-more-encompassing worldview (multiperspective caring). To put it simply, the more self-centered you are, the lower you tend to land on these scales, while the mor...
